Healthcare

A hospital network in the Niagara region is shutting down one of its urgent care centres to redeploy doctors and nurses to emergency departments amid worsening staff shortages and rising COVID-19 admissions.

Dr. Bonnie Henry said Tuesday that private companies, schools and healthcare sites must all prepare for a wave of illness by reinforcing safety protocols like physical distancing to protect as many people as possible.

With Omicron raging through the population, we need to stay on top of—and properly fund—the science behind long-COVID, set to be a post-pandemic pandemic of its own.

​​​​​​​Assess medication use, Talk about risks versus benefits, select Alternatives, Plan next steps, Engage patient and Reduce dose.

The deal covers 1,300 salaried, alternate payment plan and fee-for-service physicians in Newfoundland and Labrador.

Software developer Mike DiDomizio was frustrated with Ontario’s decentralized approach to booking rapid antigen tests at pharmacies. So he made his own website to help solve the problem.

All adults aged 18 and over will be able to book an appointment to receive their third COVID-19 vaccine shot before the end of January.

Medicine needs three things to survive, argues Dr. Shawn Whatley: civility, logic and free speech.